Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's condition from their perspective. You place yourself in their shoes and feel what they are feeling. Empathy is known to increase prosocial (helping) behaviors. While American culture might be socializing people into becoming more individualistic rather than empathic, research has uncovered the existence of "mirror neurons," which react to emotions expressed by others and then reproduce them.
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Things that I, as a Floridian can be proud of.
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Morning
I love those kids!
I think I'm the only one that watches Big Brother but I think this kind of ties in with today's blog in its context of empathy and racism Big Brother Becomes Lab Experiment in Overt Racism I generally like to watch the show for the stupid drama and to watch how people interact with each other, but I was not prepared for this season. Julie Chen is also not happy about this, she hosts the show. She's made some pointed comments that seem to fly over some contestants heads during live interviews. I kind of can't wait till she gets to do the exit interview with some of these people.
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Things that I, as a Floridian can be proud of.
I really, really, really like number 9!
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Things that I, as a Floridian can be proud of.
I really, really, really like number 9!
I do too!
Quote by Raine:I don't even know what to make of the show at this point. It's frightening to see such overtness going on.Quote by wickedpam:
Morning
I love those kids!
I think I'm the only one that watches Big Brother but I think this kind of ties in with today's blog in its context of empathy and racism Big Brother Becomes Lab Experiment in Overt Racism I generally like to watch the show for the stupid drama and to watch how people interact with each other, but I was not prepared for this season. Julie Chen is also not happy about this, she hosts the show. She's made some pointed comments that seem to fly over some contestants heads during live interviews. I kind of can't wait till she gets to do the exit interview with some of these people.
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Mondo -- did you watch Sharknado?
Quote by wickedpam: Its also incredibly sad that the girls who are doing it don't even see what they are doing.
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Morning
I love those kids!
I think I'm the only one that watches Big Brother but I think this kind of ties in with today's blog in its context of empathy and racism Big Brother Becomes Lab Experiment in Overt Racism I generally like to watch the show for the stupid drama and to watch how people interact with each other, but I was not prepared for this season. Julie Chen is also not happy about this, she hosts the show. She's made some pointed comments that seem to fly over some contestants heads during live interviews. I kind of can't wait till she gets to do the exit interview with some of these people.
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Mondo -- did you watch Sharknado?
YES! It was teh awesome!
Quote by Raine:Quote by wickedpam: Its also incredibly sad that the girls who are doing it don't even see what they are doing.^^^^ THIS ^^^^
This is why these things still happen -- It's a lack of awareness. I know we are all guilty of not realizing things from time to time, it just a human nature thing. That said when it is pointed out at least for myself, I try to reflect upon it.
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Morning
I love those kids!
I think I'm the only one that watches Big Brother but I think this kind of ties in with today's blog in its context of empathy and racism Big Brother Becomes Lab Experiment in Overt Racism I generally like to watch the show for the stupid drama and to watch how people interact with each other, but I was not prepared for this season. Julie Chen is also not happy about this, she hosts the show. She's made some pointed comments that seem to fly over some contestants heads during live interviews. I kind of can't wait till she gets to do the exit interview with some of these people.
Interesting that the bigots names are "Aaryn" (which is almost Aryan) and "Zimmerman"
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Mondo -- did you watch Sharknado?
YES! It was teh awesome!
Did you follow it on Twitter too?
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Mondo -- did you watch Sharknado?
YES! It was teh awesome!
Did you follow it on Twitter too?
I had the total experience. The best tweet was something along the lines of waiting for the big Sharknado- Jetnado production number for the finale.
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Mondo -- did you watch Sharknado?
YES! It was teh awesome!
Did you follow it on Twitter too?
I had the total experience. The best tweet was something along the lines of waiting for the big Sharknado- Jetnado production number for the finale.
That's a good one XD Might happen in Sharknado 2 - Taking A Bite of the BiG Apple
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Mondo -- did you watch Sharknado?
YES! It was teh awesome!
Did you follow it on Twitter too?
I had the total experience. The best tweet was something along the lines of waiting for the big Sharknado- Jetnado production number for the finale.
That's a good one XD Might happen in Sharknado 2 - Taking A Bite of the BiG Apple
Sharknado 2 - With Frikkin' Laser Beams!
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Mondo -- did you watch Sharknado?
YES! It was teh awesome!
Did you follow it on Twitter too?
I had the total experience. The best tweet was something along the lines of waiting for the big Sharknado- Jetnado production number for the finale.
That's a good one XD Might happen in Sharknado 2 - Taking A Bite of the BiG Apple
Sharknado 2 - With Frikkin' Laser Beams!
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The hell.
I really don't like gated communities.
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For the first time in its 40 year operating history Plymouth's Pilgrim Nuclear Plant forced to throttle back to 85% power because the cooling water from Cape Cod Bay is too warm.
Nope.....no problem....
Meanwhile, Pilgrim officials declared the “unusual event” – related to Monday's failure of the control room alarms, known as annunciators – terminated just before midnight Tuesday.
“The exact cause of the annunciator failure has not yet been identified,” Sheehan said.
“We will continue to evaluate Entergy's efforts to identify the root cause. Meanwhile the system has been checked and tested and is currently functioning properly.”
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The hell.
I really don't like gated communities.
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For the first time in its 40 year operating history Plymouth's Pilgrim Nuclear Plant forced to throttle back to 85% power because the cooling water from Cape Cod Bay is too warm.
Nope.....no problem....
ETA: is this a reason for concern up there?Meanwhile, Pilgrim officials declared the “unusual event” – related to Monday's failure of the control room alarms, known as annunciators – terminated just before midnight Tuesday.
“The exact cause of the annunciator failure has not yet been identified,” Sheehan said.
“We will continue to evaluate Entergy's efforts to identify the root cause. Meanwhile the system has been checked and tested and is currently functioning properly.”
"Nobody ever predicted the water temperatures would go up this high in the Northeast when the plants were designed in the 1960s," said Sheehan.
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The hell.
I really don't like gated communities.
We hatesss them as well. They are just awful. I do however like the gated trailer park here in Jville. Yes, a gated trailer park, let that sink in.
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The hell.
I really don't like gated communities.
We hatesss them as well. They are just awful. I do however like the gated trailer park here in Jville. Yes, a gated trailer park, let that sink in.
Brothers will fight
and kill each other,
sisters' children
will defile kinship.
It is harsh in the world,
whoredom rife
—an axe age, a sword age
—shields are riven—
a wind age, a wolf age—
before the world goes headlong.
No man will have
mercy on another.
CPS lays off more than 2,000, including 1,000 teachers
Latest round follows 855 job cuts last month
By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah and Kim Geiger, Chicago Tribune reporters
6:34 a.m. CDT, July 19, 2013
Citing a $1 billion budget deficit, Chicago Public Schools will lay off more than 2,000 employees, more than 1,000 of them teachers, the district said Thursday night.
About half of the 1,036 teachers being let go are tenured. The latest layoffs, which also include 1,077 school staff members, are in addition to 855 employees — including 420 teachers — who were laid off last month as a result of the district's decision to close 49 elementary schools and a high school program.
CPS spokeswoman Becky Carroll said the district was "scraping the bottom" of reserves to provide financial relief and had made cuts in other spending before making layoffs.
"We're not going to be able to cut our way out of this crisis," Carroll said. "Our revenues are simply not keeping in line with our spending increases."
The district again blamed the lack of pension reform for many of its fiscal woes, noting that pension payments are growing this fiscal year by an additional $400 million. The layoffs were the result of "budgetary decisions made by principals or changes in enrollment," the district said in a statement.
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Yes, I am checking in Northern Virginia and Massachusetts, but no responses yet. I do have a person to talk to about online teaching who knows a friend from Temple. It did not help that a friend whom I am babysitting for today said that my teaching career is over. We will see. I still have hopes for a few things, but I will get by one way or another.
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The hell.
I really don't like gated communities.
We hatesss them as well. They are just awful. I do however like the gated trailer park here in Jville. Yes, a gated trailer park, let that sink in.
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Yes, I am checking in Northern Virginia and Massachusetts, but no responses yet. I do have a person to talk to about online teaching who knows a friend from Temple. It did not help that a friend whom I am babysitting for today said that my teaching career is over. We will see. I still have hopes for a few things, but I will get by one way or another.
your teaching career is over? What is that all about?
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why the Comic Con hate? I still want to go one day (granted I'll probably be the only 80 year old there, but still)
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WTF?? Really? Still?
Prejudice dies hard.
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why the Comic Con hate? I still want to go one day (granted I'll probably be the only 80 year old there, but still)
Chris or Mamma? Surely not Jim!
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WTF?? Really? Still?
Prejudice dies hard.
Not so much prejudice, but just stupid.
Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,
Resplendent daughter of the head divine,
Wise foundress of the system of the world,
Guide of the stars, who art thou then if thou,
Bound to the tail of folly's uncurbed steed,
Must, vainly shrieking with the drunken crowd,
Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.
Accursed, who striveth after noble ends,
And with deliberate wisdom forms his plans!
To the fool-king belongs the world.
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why the Comic Con hate? I still want to go one day (granted I'll probably be the only 80 year old there, but still)
Chris or Mamma? Surely not Jim!
both, I understand Chris's dislike since he hates swords and elves. Just seems like they are looking down their noses at Fanboys and FanGirls
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why the Comic Con hate? I still want to go one day (granted I'll probably be the only 80 year old there, but still)
Chris or Mamma? Surely not Jim!
both, I understand Chris's dislike since he hates swords and elves. Just seems like they are looking down their noses at Fanboys and FanGirls
Hurmph!
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WTF?? Really? Still?
Prejudice dies hard.
Not so much prejudice, but just stupid.
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Ohhh Mala! Mala! MAAAAAALLLLAAAA! An interview with Joss Wheadon's costume designer! SQUEEEEEE! :fanboy mode: